Sunday, February 7, 2016

Don't be deceived,Chibok girls can't be rescued-Obasanjo

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has dismissed promises that the
missing Chibok girls will be rescued,saying it is a lie.Obasanjo who was
the guest speaker at the 7th Osun Interactive Session hosted by the
Staff Club of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, last Friday,
said

He said:

“Today, if anybody tells you he will bring back the Chibok schoolgirls,
it is a lie. It is a lie. (President Muhammadu) Buhari has even said
that he does not have any information about the Chibok girls except
those who escaped and some of them have been rehabilitated. “I
was talking to a Sierra Leonian diplomat who is responsible for women
affairs at the UN. He said to me, ‘For now, sexual violence and human
trafficking have been brought together in all areas of insurgency and
that is what has happened to the Chibok girls. Some of them were sold
and maybe in 10, 20,30 years, we will come back and we will hear some of
their stories. But if anybody tells you he will bring back the Chibok
girls, it is a lie.”

He also blamed the former president Jonathan for not responding
promptly, after learning about the abduction of the schoolgirls.

“The former president got the information at 8am on the moring they
were abducted and I have said it and even wrote it in my book that he
did not even believe that Boko Haram was a menace. He believed that it
was compelled by the North to prevent him from having a second term. His
reaction was that ‘since they have said they want to make Nigeria
ungovernnable, let them be abducting themselves’ and we have not got
anyting out of that.”